Doctor Phosphorus Complete History | Creature Commandos

[@mrconroy4672]

His origin in Creature commandos is a lot better than the comics.

[@KeyIssues]

Agreed.

[@BrandonScott-mi5pz]

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[@KeizerSosebee]

James Gunn is a genius when it comes to breathing new life into B list characters

[@arkhamftw6186]

I like Phosphorus being a gangster it’s such a simple yet solid use of him.

[@gamrage]

The change in his origin story is similar to the change in Mr. Freeze's origin in the original Batman Animated Series. There's actually a lot of parallels to their origins now, but the main difference being that Dr Phosphorus couldn't save his family whereas Victor Fries was in the process of resuscitating his wife. In a way, Dr Phosphorus is Mr Freeze if his wife were killed. The one thing I would have liked them to do better for Dr Phosphorus is to make him a much more calculating person. He's intelligent, he's a doctor, and he actually has empathy unlike the Joker. He seems to have a bit of depth but I feel like he could have been made out to be a much more tactical combatant. Most of what he does is pretty simple and brutish.

[@pepito2847]

So basically, Doctor P in the comics does indeed have the backstory linked to Rupert Throne like in Creature Commandos, with the big difference being that Commandos gave us the murder of Phosphorus’ wife to add extra EXTRA sympathy for him

[@socriabbas454]

Well sympathy is not the word since there's no justification for him to kill both the wife and kids who are both innocent. You could say you can EMPATHIZE but not SYMPATHIZE. Yes, there's a difference.

[@godfrey4461]

@@socriabbas454 No I sympathize fully. The kids are innocent, but the wife knew the man she married. She sleeps at night while her monster of a husband rains down fire and brim stone. A fitting end if you ask me.

[@williaml840]

@@socriabbas454 I mean, unless the wife was being insanely willfully ignorant she probably knew her husband was involved in organized crime - obviously that's not remotely enough to justify murdering her but it does make her not entirely innocent. The kids though were definitely innocent.

[@brandoncassibo6527]

Eye for an eye. He took his family, so he took EVERYTHING from him.

[@Wolfking99-x4r]

He is my favorite character Alan Tudyk has done such a great job voicing him

[@mediaknight]

5:07 Batman: I won’t kill you… but I don’t have to save you. Dr. Phosphorus: But you created the circumstances in which I die.

[@thesiblingscrew2323]

He was rocking those moves Right on the disco floor

[@tomcurl8034]

I think a good angle to go with Dr. phosphorus is that he knows being around others will make them sick from his radio activity, but he’s also deeply lonely and is torn between his need for social contact at his desire not to hurt others with his abilities

[@ulyssesveracruz8343]

Fun fact in one of tom king run phosphorus gave batman cancer

[@deannas2778]

Omg idk why but it made me think of the Harley Quinn show scene where she shoots a security guard with a cancer gun by mistake.

[@juanhaines7295]

He looks like blight from Batman beyond.

[@chidaluokoro9104]

Dr phosphorus came first

[@SicSemperBeats]

there's a few videos discussing the origin and similarities between the characters. I recommend to watch them

[@SamJonesS4mmyd48ull]

I thought Blight was supposed to be their Phosphorus with a different name, for a long ass time. I was actually disappointed to find out he wasn't. I've always thought Phosphorus had a lame ass backstory.

[@johnwerner69]

There’s at least 3 characters in DC that looks like this

[@BrandonScott-mi5pz]

AGREED,

[@MrRonald327]

He’s basically Batman’s Atomic Skull. Creature Commandos is a BIG improvement for him.

[@jilliansummers5659]

Was Doctor Phosphorus an inspiration for Blight in Batman Beyond? I know they're not seemingly directly related, but given they're design and power set, it feels like like Blight is a Phosphorus revamp.

[@ChamarM]

Yes

[@donovanbradford8231]

I prefer Blight because if you are a walking, talking nuclear fallout then you aren't playing second fiddle to anyone short of Darkside or Brainiac and Phosphorus sadly played second fiddle a lot.

[@sirspeedy9006]

Having played RDR2 before seeing this show, the surprise Dutch Van Der Linde cameo as Rupert Thorne made the scene so nuch better

[@sakurahex4998]

He looks way better in creature commandos

[@syrenet]

Important note: this is the comic dr phospor, not the creature commandos series dr,phospohorous. these chraracters are vastly different.

[@Takayama-sama]

Doctor Phosphorus' look reminds me of Blight from Batman Beyond.

[@azel7056]

Huh, You know it been awhile since I genuinely like the Shows Adaptation than I do the original source

[@tylerloesch1660]

I wonder if DR.P was in a small part maybe the inspiration for Blight from Batman Beyond.

[@ziveisenstodt2477]

Yo did Batman just casually kill him (or at least believe he did with full intention)?

[@thenerdynetwork1]

You forgot to mention that Doctor Phosphorus was the inspiration for the creation of Blight in Batman Beyond.

[@AH-is5yg]

he's better than blight. he can dance!

[@hexmaniacdio248]

9:44 that.... how, if he can get cancer he would have had it way sooner and too much to live very long

[@Loreweavver]

They tried to make him sympathetic in the television show and accidentally made him more self centered and egotistically evil than any of Batman s villains. Like, dude may be worse than the Joker.

[@expensivepain1565]

Honestly man, im sick of all the origin villains for all superheros. Like what if in the next Batman movie he’s the main big bad? Just something new

[@skybite]

He’s like Atomic Skull

[@alexwilcox4075]

No mention of his off-shoot Blight?

[@olafspider]

he looks like blight

[@loganblevenson]

blight and terry mcginnis are basically the 2099 version of dr phosphorus and batman, completely different people that just look identical for some reason

[@RealLifeIronMan]

No mentions of parallels to Blight from Batman Beyond?

[@Nin_the_Shinobi]

Who wants to shake hands with a skeleton?

[@HR-qv5ds]

So Blight was based on him?

[@niccoloproia3678]

I think the best way to deal with this is having a mashup between his comic book origin and the Creature Commandos'. Personally i think both versions aren't really great: the idea of the crooked scientist that blames his problems on everyone but himself can work but for some reason Dr. Phosporous doesn't point his hatred specifically to the people that were even partially responsible for his condition (like Thorne) but the entirety of the Gotham population. On the other hand Gunn's version is yes more tragic but at the same time kinda repetitive (especially in Batman's rogue's gallery) and seems way too apologetic towards him, i get it that they wanted a more "Mr.Freeze" kind of take on the character but trying to do so they made Thorne an over the top moustache twirling villain that literally deals with Nazis (instead of the more refined and realistic take from Englehart's stories) and Phosporous was excused of every bad thing he had done. They should try to mix the two by mantaining the tragic origin but keeping Dr.Phosporous an actual villain since the beginning

[@hudsondunn8385]

I get where you are coming from with the repetitive family death but I personally like the James gun version. Most Batman villains lose something and crash out. It’s supposed to give them a parallel to Batman. Him wanting to inflict the same pain he felt to others well pretty standard I think was done pretty well by gun.

[@niccoloproia3678]

@hudsondunn8385 I can understand that but it seems to me that this version of Dr.Phosphorus takes way too many aspects from characters like Mr.Freeze and Man-Bat (with a pinch of Black Mask): - you have the sympathetic and well meaning scientist with a family aspect from Mr.Freeze - the fact that curing cancer was Sartorius' main goal due to the fact that this disease could affect him directly just like Kirk Langstrom (Man-Bat)'s research - the skeleton look with a business suit that takes from Black Mask My main problem with Gunn's depiction of Dr. Phosphorus, as i said before, is that he basically turned Thorne into a cartoonish bad guy that deals with Nazis (that could work in his universe since i doubt he would have ever used Rupert Thorne in a Batman movie but not in comics since Thorne is a way more interesting and complex character in those) in order to depict Alex more as a victim than he truly is, i find so strange that in a city like Gotham (especially with Bruce Wayne around) you have a guy that says that he can create a cure for cancer and that can show enough proof to convince a guy like Thorne of his capabilities and yet the only one interested in backing up Alex is a crime lord. Even if emotionally weaker the Englehart's original version of Dr. Phosphorus origin makes much more sense

[@hudsondunn8385]

@@niccoloproia3678 I don't know. Mr Freeze still has a wife who is alive. Dr Phosphorus can't save his family he really is a SKELETON of who he once was.

[@niccoloproia3678]

@hudsondunn8385 i mean can you really describe Nora as alive? Both Nora and the Gunn's version of Phosphorus' family serve the same purpose: give the villain a tragic backstory that involves their family

[@hudsondunn8385]

@ I mean yeah. Since Nora can be brought out of cyrosleep she can be brought back, therefore all of Mr Freeze's acts forwards his goal of saving his wife. Dr Phosphorus crashed out, nothing he does brings his wife back, and therefore his motivations are more self serving.

[@Bioblade-qp8jv]

Wasn't he in Batman Beyond?

[@alkissakoulis782]

That was a different character named Blight (although I wish they were the same)

[@DouglasWhipking-zg3nu]

This mf would be the most insane ghost rider of all time.